Stencil



F. S. TOBEY April 3, 1951 STENCIL Filed June 12, 1946 INVENTOl-Z ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 3, 1951 STENCIL Frederic S. Tobey, Canton, Mass, assignor, by mesne assignments, to W. H. Brady 00.,Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of Wisconsin Application June 12, 1946, Serial N0. 676,303

2 Claims. (Cl; 101127) This invention relates to a stencil sheet for use in the production of multi-colored designs, particularly letters and numerals as applied to airplanes, auto and truck bodies, and the like, for identification and advertising purposes. It is the primary object of the invention to provide such stencils which will enable multi-colored pin stripe designs to be quickly and accurately produced as by spraying and brushing with resultant savings in time, labor and material as compared with prior art practises and stencils.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing the complete article of manufacture as sold in the trade, portions of the stencil sheet alone being turned up for purposes of better illustrating the construction;

Fig. 2 is a plan view and shows the main portion of the body sheet ofthe stencil in use, illustrating the same with one color partially applied to the larger opening therein;

Fig. 3 is a plan view, partly in perspective, showing the stencil with the principal portion of the opening being filled or covered by thereplaced larger or central portion of the design, leaving a narrow pin stripe opening surrounding said portion as the pin stripe is removed therefrom as shown, and

Fig. 4 shows typical results of the use of the stencils of this invention in applying letters and a numeral to the vertical tail surface of an airplane.

Referring to the drawings in which like numerals represent like parts, the stencil embodies a body sheet 2 and a slip-sheet or backing sheet 4 temporarily secured thereto in face-to-face contact therewith by means of the body sheet 2 carrying a pressure-sensitive coating 6 for the temporary adhesive attachment of the two sheets in faceto-face relation. This adhesive coating" to the backing sheet, the two sheets are together and simultaneously provided with through-andthrough substantially continuous cut lines providing cut-outs defining letters, numerals and the like, said cut-outs being bordered by two uniformly-spaced narrow cut lines defining an inner portion 8 and pin stripe portion ill, for example, of the Arabic figure 3 as appears in the drawing's wherein said lines are parallel since a block numeral is involved.

In typical use, the backing sheet 4 is carefully removed, at least from the outer portion of the stencil body sheet, which outer portion is then adhesively attached to a suitable base to which it is desired to apply the design, for example, as in Fig. 2, wherein the color {2 is shown as being applied to the base after removal of the outer and inner portions 8 and I0 which may be and preferably are removed as a unit.

Thereafter, following the drying of the color i2, and afterremoval of the portion of the backing sheet adherent thereto, unless previously removed, the outer and inner portions 8 and ID are preferably together replaced as a unit in position overlying the color I2 and filling the entire space in the stencil. Thus, the central portion 8 is replaced in its original position and thereby necessarily uniformly spaced from the may include ordinary rubber cement with rosin outer margin of the orifice by reason of the presence of the surrounding pin stripe portion Ill.

The pin stripe portion may then be removed, leaving the central portion 8 pressed firmly in its desired properly spaced position, and a different color pin stripe i l applied to overlie the margins of the color l2, thus providing, upon removal of the central portion 8, a pin stripe numeral 3 of uniform andprecise width with the central portion of a different or contrasting color, asshown in Fig. 4. If desired, the stencil can also be employed simply to apply a pin stripe without a separate application of a central body portion by simply utilizing the background color of the base, and removing only the marginal portion of the pin stripe iii of the stencil to provide pin stripe letters as-shown by the letters NC, in Fi 4.

It will, of course, be appreciated that the stencil of this invention is not limited in its use to the manner as above described, and that it also may be utilized in a diiierent order of steps, and according to the effects it is desired to produce.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible stencil for producing pin stripe designs, said stencil comprising a backing sheet and a high 3 tensile strength body sheet, said body sheet having a pressure sensitive adhesive coating normally adherently holding it in face-toface contact with said backing sheet, said coating being adapted to hold said body sheet to a base surface after said backing sheet is removed, and said body sheet also having outer and inner spaced cut lines defining. abut-out portion ofi atdesign: to be applied to said base surface, said cut-out portion likewise having a out line spaced in wardly from its edge dividing said cut-out portion into a central portion and a narrow pim stripe border portion separable therefrom, said central and border portions-being adaptedto beitogether or separately and selectively; removed. 15

and replaced in their original positions in said body sheet in the use of the stencil;

4 2. An article according to claim 1 in which said backing sheet is provided with cut lines defining a cut-out portion having central and border portions in registry with the corresponding portions of said body sheet.

FREDERIC S. TOBEY.

REFERENCES CIZIEUF The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 3183943 Beei: June 2, 1885 135809382 Dickens Apr. 13, 1926 2253:3647 Wartha Aug. 5, 1941 251 283,913: Leander Aug. 28, 1945 

